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“maybe we could also have a little conversation about jumping and/or falling from buildings. Generally speaking, this is a thing that we—as medical professionals—advise against.”
― Jean Knight Pace, Pulse: A Paramedic's Walk Along the Lines of Life and Death

“mitochondria – bean-shaped power stations that supply cells with energy.”
― Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life

“Next he showed me my life review. Every second from birth until death you will see and feel, and [you will] experience your emotions and others that you hurt, and feel their pain and emotions. What this is for is so you can see what kind of person you were and how you treated others from another vantage point, and you will be harder on yourself than anyone to judge you.”
― Jeffrey Long, Evidence of the Afterlife: The Science of Near-Death Experiences

“As palaeontologist Andrew Knoll once said, “Animals might be evolution’s icing, but bacteria are really the cake.”
― Ed Yong, I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life